The Potteries in Print

The Potteries - off to a good start

Opportunities in The Pottery industry for school leavers 1959

" This booklet is primarily for the benefit of those of you who are about to take one of the most important steps in your life ... "

" If you choose the right job and the one you like, you have made a good start in life. If you choose an industry which has stood the test of time, which has become famed throughout the civilised world ... then you choose wisely. "

" The fact that no commodity is more widely needed all over the world than the output of The Potteries is, in itself, an assurance of permanent employment."

The Potteries of Staffordshire

From The Collected Writings of Hermann August Seger 1872

" There are few industrial districts which are as interesting as the pottery towns of Staffordshire, not only on account of their enormous size and the variety of manufacture, but in a still higher degree, owing to the general, world-renowned reputation enjoyed by the products manufactured here for along time for their artistic and technical perfection."